Charlotte Brontë > Quotes

“He is not of your order: keep to your caste, and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He made me love himwithout looking at me”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“my heart swells with gratitude to the beneficent God of this earth just now.  He sees not as man sees, but far clearer: judges not as man judges, but far more wisely. ”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?” I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still. “Because,” he said, “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.  And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I’ve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.  As for you,—you’d forget me.” “That I never should, sir: you know—”  Impossible to proceed.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He was nearly heartbroken when he wrote that poem, and it almost breaks one’s heart to read it. But he found relief in writing it - I know he did; and that gift of poetry - the most divine bestowed on man - was; I believe, granted to allay emotions when their strength threatens harm.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what is your fate to be required to bear”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“O que quero dizer é que, quando um homem pacientemente suporta o insuportável, ele está morto.”
― Charlotte Brontë, O professor

“Bessie, you must promise not to scold me any more till I go.” “Well, I will; but mind you are a very good girl, and don’t be afraid of me. Don’t start when I chance to speak rather sharply; it’s so provoking.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“My bride is here... because my equal is here and my likeness...come to me- come to me entilrely now...make my happiness- I will make yours”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven’t your equal”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“What is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“neophyte,”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“. . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bitterness of hopeless anguish; unless, strained, simulated, again overstrained, and, at last, destroyed our faculties for enjoyment; then, truly, we may find ourselves without support, robbed of hope. Our agony is great, and how can it end? We have broken the spring of our powers; life must be all suffering‐‐ too feeble to conceive faith‐‐death must be darkness‐‐God, spirits, religion can have no place in our collapsed minds, where linger only hideous and polluting recollections of vice; and time brings us on to the brink of the grave, and dissolution flings us in‐‐a rag eaten through and through with disease, wrung together with pain, stamped into the churchyard sod by the inexorable heel of despair.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

“I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“To wonder sadly, did I say? No: a new influence began to act upon my life, and sadness, for a certain space, was held at bay. Conceive a dell, deep-hollowed in forest secresy; it lies in dimness and mist: its turf is dank, its herbage pale and humid. A storm or an axe makes a wide gap amongst the oak-trees; the breeze sweeps in; the sun looks down; the sad, cold dell becomes a deep cup of lustre; high summer pours her blue glory and her golden light out of that beauteous sky, which till now the starved hollow never saw. A new creed became mine - a belief in happiness.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere;”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Reviewers,”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. ”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things: the good lady evidently belonged to this class;”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“direction”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“But then it seems disgraceful to be flogged, and to be sent to stand in the middle of a room full of people; and you are such a great girl: I am far younger than you, and I could not bear it.’ ‘Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Hayat, kin beslemek ya da sana yapılan kötülüklerin çetelesini tutmak için çok kısa gibi görünüyor bana.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“From the day she left I was no longer the same: with her was gone every settled feeling, every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I do love you,” I said, “more than ever: but I must not show or indulge the feeling: and this is the last time I must express it.” “The”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Mademoiselle St. Pierre always presided at M. Emanuel's lessons, and I was told that the polish of her manner, her seeming attention, her tact and grace, impressed that gentleman very favourably.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Still indomitable was the reply: ‘I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad – as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre